Distance control is one of the few genuinely measurable things in golf — a rangefinder or GPS watch will give the yardage to the pin down to the foot. What it won’t measure is your own dispersion: how far your shots actually scatter around that number, which is usually the bigger problem.
Frank tries on a pair of rangefinder glasses at the pro shop — yardage displayed right in his field of vision, no more pulling a device out between shots. He turns to the salesperson, delighted: “Now I’ll never come up short again.” The salesperson, who’s watched Frank’s shot pattern from the next bay over, says nothing. The problem was never knowing it’s 150 yards. It’s that Frank’s 150-yard shots land anywhere from 130 to 165.
Knowing the exact yardage doesn’t fix a shot pattern that doesn’t know the exact yardage.
